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• After Copenhagen

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 570
  In the wake of the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, we’re starting to see some more thoughtful analyses which go beyond the proximate causes of the imbroglio to gesture to more structural factors. Robert has already cited George Monbiot’s recent blog post . I’d like to take a look at a ...
  3 days ago

• Do We Need Global Governance To Combat Global Warming?

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 781
  The recent Copenhagen Conference on global warming has led to renewed claims that we cannot effectively combat global warming without “global governance,” or perhaps even a full-fledged world government. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon recently claimed that “A [climate change] deal must include an equitable ...
  4 days ago

• Stop ‘Going Green’ to Save the Planet?

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 503
  A recent opinion piece in The Washington Post urged Americans to “stop going green.” Author Mike Tidwell’s reasoning? We need to stop emphasizing small, voluntary action and instead work toward more large-scale solutions. Tidwell says America is overrun with “green gestures,” but not political action. ...
  4 days ago

• AsteroidGate — For Real?

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 781
  From Wired : Any number of undiscovered near-Earth objects could one day careen into the Earth, and there is a lot of talk here at the American Geophysical Union meeting about tracking them. So far, though, only one discovered object has seemed even mildly likely to hit our planet.That asteroid is Apophis, a ...
  5 days ago

• Copenhagen as UN Politics, Not Climate Change Substance

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 781
  Post-Copenhagen .  At bottom, the question is one of legitimacy and what it means to say that a climate change deal requires, in Secretary General Ban’s words, an “equitable global governance structure” to administer it, and the many, many, many things that apparently fall under its tent.  What is this ...
  6 days ago

• Obama Urges World to Unite Behind Climate Pact as Talks Falter – Voice of America

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 172
  Reuters Obama Urges World to Unite Behind Climate Pact as Talks Falter Voice of America US President Barack Obama told world leaders at the final day of the Copenhagen climate change conference Friday it is time for the nations of the world to come together behind a common purpose. Photo: AP ...
  1 week ago

• Obama: Time for talk is over

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  COPENHAGEN — A visibly angry Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet at China and other developing nations Friday, declaring that the time has come "not to talk but to act" on climate change. Emerging from a multinational meeting boycotted by Chinese Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Obama warned delegates that U.S. offers of ...
  1 week ago

• Slides: NodeXL overview: social media network analysis

  
  Connected Action — Authority: 118
  Here is a recent slidedeck that provides an overview of NodeXL and social media network analysis. 2009 December NodeXL Overview View more presentations from Marc Smith . The deck illustrates the use of NodeXL to extract several social media networks from systems like twitter and facebook to generate maps of ...
  1 week ago

• The Climate Change Fund as the New Millennium Development Goals?

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 781
  Ever since the Copenhagen conference got going, and rapidly turned into an argument over wealth transfer from the rich world to the poor world, it has seemed to me that the exercise is best understood not as an argument about climate change, but instead about internaitonal economic development policy. That is, the ...
  1 week ago

• Book: Communities in Cyberspace – Ten Years Later

  
  Connected Action — Authority: 118
  When the late Peter Kollock and I published Communities in Cyberspace with Routledge in 1999 there were few broadband connections, no iPhones, and little WiFi.  Today, there is an ebook version of the book and Amazon sells a version for the Kindle, a device it was hard to even imagine when the book was written.  ...
  1 week ago

• The welcome illusion of Monday morning

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 432
  Too Much Weekend I’ll like my week better for a tidy room A golden rose cheerfully in a crystal tube But with a day spent alone Working on streams distant from the streams of others I yearn for the strains of the world outside If I had a TV, I would switch it on I’m glad I don’t It would not give me what ...
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• Book: Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice

  
  Connected Action — Authority: 118
  The Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice (OD2005/DIAC-2005) was held at Stanford University May 20-22, 2005. From that event there is now a book,   Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice , edited by Todd Davies and Seeta Peña Gangadharan (CSLI Publications, November ...
  1 week ago

• Survival of the Fattest and the Global Superfluous Poor in the Negotiations in Copenhagen

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 781
  One of the minor brouhahas at Copenhagen has been over one of the many pieces of public art put up for the conference, Survival of the Fattest, sculpted by artist Jens Galschiot (2004), sponsored by sevenmeters.net . (I am putting up an image from a blog I frequently read, the “I am a middle-aged gay libertarian ...
  2 weeks ago

• Without a Plan, Trying to Change the World (Review of ‘No Impact Man’)

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 503
  I started reading the book No Impact Man without any expectations that I would like it. Probably because I thought that writers-turned-bloggers who conduct year-long experiments — whether it be “going green” or cooking all of Julia Child’s recipes — were just looking for the quickest route to book or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Paul Henry loses Breakfast an advertiser

  
  The Hand Mirror — Authority: 535
  Thanks to Idiot/Savant for his support and for sharing the response he received from FreemanX: I wasnt particularly impressed with the presentation of our experience nor by certain things said by Paul Henry, but suffice to say we wont be advertising with them again. Again I cant comment on Paul Henrys past comments ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fourteen days to seal history’s judgment on this generation

  
  OurWorld 2.0 — Authority: 119
  Today Our World 2.0 web magazine joins 56 newspapers in 45 countries that are taking the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pay Equity rally in Hamilton last Friday

  
  The Hand Mirror — Authority: 535
  Big thanks to The Workers Hero (aka Super G) for sending this pic through. They are outside the local National Party office in Hamilton.
  2 weeks ago

• Tea workers facing starvation in India

  
  The Hand Mirror — Authority: 535
  From the IUF website:Tata, the transnational Indian conglomerate whose Tetley Group makes the world famous Tetley teas, has taken 6,500 people hostage through hunger. The hostages are nearly 1,000 tea plantation workers and their families on the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal, India. Permanently living on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Paul Henry must change or go

  
  The Hand Mirror — Authority: 535
  Thanks to Craig for this idea in comments. Hope it works!TVNZ have had numerous complaints about Paul Henrys most recent ridiculousness, to them directly, to the Human Rights Commission, and to the Broadcasting Standards Authority. While we dont know yet what their response will be, as Paul Henrys employer, we do ...
  2 weeks ago

• gotta get behind the mule in the morning and plow

  
  throw another bear in the canoe — Authority: 508
   Still chugging away at that to-do list. Will be taking a break tonight to go have dinner with netcurmudgeon  and ashacat . Just about to start invoicing things. If I could have one wish, it would be a paperwork fairy. I could be so much more productive if I didnt have paperwork. I am minded of ...
  3 weeks ago

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